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Building upon our knowledge of everyday materials and how we use them, this week the children have been investigating how to recycle, reduce and reuse materials. They thought about all the different types of objects that we use daily at home and in school and learnt which of the materials can be…

We had a lovely day on Monday when all of our new for September Reception children came to visit us for the day. 

We welcomed Matilda, Jasmine, Lily, Ethan, Luca, Theo and Alfred. The children settled brilliantly, they enjoyed playing, chatting and eating lunch. We can’t wait to see you again…

Middle school have had a very busy week this week! We have been completing our final assessments for this year, being able to show off all of the wonderful things that we have learned since September. Every single child has worked so hard with their revision activities during the mornings and with…

This week children from year 2 got a chance to join middle school for a taster day alongside our wonderful year 3s. 
We did plenty of brilliant activities throughout the day.

Our lovely year 2s were keen to show off their skills with maths and English. We used our maths knowledge in an 'escape…

On our final week at the curling rink, Upper School enjoyed playing in teams of three against each other. One player was ‘skip’, one was a ‘sweeper’ and one throwing the stones. The success rate was much better this week with many of the children’s shots going into the ‘house’ (target). The…

Mrs Cadwallader brought history to life for us last week by bringing in two photos of herself on holiday at the beach when she was a little girl. I was so impressed by our children’s knowledge as they applied what we had learnt a couple of weeks ago (have a look back here …

Today Upper School learnt about biodiversity and how important it is. We also went out into the school grounds and conducted our own biodiversity study (minibeast hunt) to see how biodiverse our field actual is…

Altogether, we found 8 different species but our grassland key that we were using…

On Monday, Year 4 became Year 5s for the day and joined current Year 5 s in Upper School. They enjoyed a themed day learning about Explorers. Two of the explorers they found out about were John Ainsworth Horrocks, from Preston, and Alfred Wainwright from Blackburn.

 John Ainsworth Horrocks was…

This week’s curling lesson involved a short recap of how to launch the stone and then we were quickly organised into teams for some curling games. 
In teams of 4 or 5 the children were given roles such as ‘skip’, ‘sweeper’ or ‘lead’ and everyone had a go at trying to get their stone into the…

Progressing our science learning about everyday materials this week the children have carried out an investigation answering the question ‘which materials change shape?’. They have tested various objects, identified what materials they are made out of and discussed why the object is made out of…

Our children in Lower School have made so much progress in different skills in PE this year it has been brilliant to see. This week they have all been perfecting throwing and catching skills with Reception children practicing over arm throws whilst Y1 and 2 have been working on cooperation skills…

Our Reception children have had another busy fun filled week of learning, take a look at these photos to see a snapshot of their week …

Phonics lucky dip

Noah’s Ark doubling 

Number work with 100 popper squares

Investigating number bonds to ten with pirate treasure in the…